Before it was renamed the National Football League, the NFL was called the American Professional Football Association and dues were $100 per team in 1920. 🏈 Before there was the Lombardi Trophy there was the Brunswick-Balke Collender Cup, which mysteriously vanished after the first season. 🏆 And before there was Roger Goodell, there was Jim Thorpe, who was unanimously elected president of the APFA while playing and coaching the famed Canton Bulldogs. 🏟 This American ritual we know as the #Sup

The first NFL game in history! On October 3rd, 1920, Dayton, Ohio hosted the first game in the history of the National Football League on this field within Triangle Park. 4,000 people paid $1.75 for admission to watch the hometown Dayton Triangles defeat the Columbus Panhandles 14-0. | Ohio Channel